Hello,

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 06:04:01PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> On 09/27/2012 02:24 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 01:20:34AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> >> There is no reason to use WORKER_PREP, remove it from rescuer.
> >>
> >> And there is no reason to set it so early in alloc_worker(),
> >> move "worker->flags = WORKER_PREP" to start_worker().
> > 
> > Merge this with the patch to add RESCUER to NOT_RUNNING?
> 
> Don't merge. the change log is not good.
> I should list all the purposes of WORKER_PREP(I did it in my note),
> and then we can claim that we don't need to add WORKER_PREP show early.
> 
> These two patches do different things.

Hmmm?  You're replacing WORKER_PREP with RESCUER for NOT_RUNNING
marking.  I don't see why they need to be separate patches.  Just
explain what's going on in the commit message.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun